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chopper2004
12th Apr 2023, 14:07
Dismantling of the Golfball and facility, due to fears of erosion, and also wee bit of interference from Windfarms.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23447451.north-norfolks-iconic-golf-ball-radar-removed-coast/?fbclid=IwAR1i815M7dk4O6a8Asi3hXcYHjnCwxM1EWCX7zstlZABaPPQWE-_RrCeiI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxs5NnO9j0
Site be relocated back on site at main base down the road at RAF Neatishead.
cheers
SLXOwft
12th Apr 2023, 15:09
A replacement was finished at RRH(RAF) Neatishead late last year.
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/23280120.stunning-view-new-golf-ball-radar-dome-revealed
So the type 84 won't be coming back .:E
https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/647672-civilian-buyer-raf-neatishead-wants-get-type-84-radar-working.html?highlight=trimingham#post11258064
P.S. Only one two emms in Trimingham.:)
P.S. Only one emm in Trimingham.:)
TriMinghaM = two ‘M’s by my count 😂
Finningley Boy
13th Apr 2023, 12:23
Used to be a fully 24 hour manned MRS/GCI station like Neatishead, Wartling and Bawdsey? Even given their proximity to the capital, I could never understand in the age of the T80 etc, why they needed three such stations all inside East Angular?
FB
chevvron
13th Apr 2023, 12:37
Used to be a fully 24 hour manned MRS/GCI station like Neatishead, Wartling and Bawdsey? Even given their proximity to the capital, I could never understand in the age of the T80 etc, why they needed three such stations all inside East Angular?
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Wartling was in Sussex not East Angular; it was sited on the Pevensey Levels but rapidly became flooded so was then moved to Sopley.
I believe the T80 was moved to Wartling (then later to Sopley) from Beachy Head possibly due to the radiation hazard (2,500 mw) at Beachy Head which was becoming a popular spot for sightseeing. The usual GCI station 'guardroom' was still at Beachy Head a few years ago although I'm told it had been filled in with rubble.
There was another radar unit in East Angular but in spite of my researches I cannot seem to find any information about it. I saw it in about 1966 (during a school coach trip to Bradwell Bay nuclear power station) near a village called South Woodham Ferrers; it was on a small hill just outside the town. I think it may have used the callsign 'Tango Radar' but what it did (GCI or ATC) I don't know.